ISAFF

About

ISAFF is IMDb-QUALIFYING Event!

Your work will be judged by multi-award winning professionals. Yearly Event is held  in famous Saint-Petersburg cinema 'Angleterre Cinema Lounge'. 3 winners of Year-round competition will have opportunity to become a judge for next Year-Round edition and become a member of our team.

Gala event will include red carpet, Q&A, Lectures

In 2023 we've decided to make our festival in 2 countries : Russia and Georgia. So all selected for screening participants will be able to come to offline event.

Links from previous event: http://www.1tvspb.ru/event/Festival_simvolicheskih_iskusstv/

Awards

 Each year 7 Diamonds & 26 masterpieces will be screened in the center of Russian culture - Saint-Petersburg and will compete for 3 Gran-Prix award: 
Purest Diamond Trophy 
Knowledge Award Trophy 
Soul award Trophy 
and special one: 
Symbolic Award Trophy

Rules

1.Film must not exceed 39 minutes (For those who are, there is special section "Best Feature Film". When submitting your film to additional categories you must submit to 'Best Feature Film' too.) 
2.Non-English films must be subtitled in English. 

3. By submitting your work, you agree to receive the newsletters, promos, invites and etc. 
4.To submit a film, you must own the rights or have permission from the owner. 
5.Entry fees are non-refundable. 
6.Films with a completion date after February 2018, films with a completion date later than the previous year's festival dates will be given preference. 
7.Festival have rights to change the Date of event. 
8.)|( Fest cannot provide refunds for submissions that do not meet eligibility criteria or are otherwise deemed to be disqualified under these regulations. 
9.)|( Fest can use trailer/teaser/film poster/stills or BTS for promotional purpose 
10. Films that doesn't match category will be disqualified. 
11. By submitting to )|( ISAFF you give festival permission to live screen your film in year-round programme

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Alexander Ivanov

Stanislav Ershov